Suspenders.



PATENTED MAY 1 5 H. J. GAISMAN.

SUSPENDERS. APPLICATION 171mm JULY'N; 190s.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1906.

Application filed July 17, 1903. Serial No. 165,921.

T0 00% whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY J. GAIsMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing in New York city, borough of Manhattan, State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspenders, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide improved means for connectingsuspenders with trousers, and has for its object to permit thesuspenders to be connected. with the waistband or trousers independentof or in conjunction with the waistband-buttons, to permit adjustment ofthe straps or webbing at different points with respect to the line ofthe waistband, to permit the ready connection and disconnection of thestraps with the suspender ends or bars, and to permit the adjustment ofthe holding-clamps with respect to each other and the buttons ontrouserwaistband s;

To the foregoing and other ends my invention comprises the novel detailsof improvement and arrangements of parts that will be more fullyhereinafter set forth and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming parthereof, wherein Figure 1 is a face view of a pair of suspendersembodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail side view enlarged and partlyin section.

Fig. 3 is a detail enlarged View of part of one of the suspender ends orbars. Fig. 4 is an edge view thereof. Fig. 5 is a section on the line 55 in Fig. 8 looking in the direction of the arrows, and Fig. 6 is a planview of one of the suspender-end bars.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in theseveral views.

The suspenders are indicated generally at 1 and may be generally ofsuitable or usual construction, my improvements being directed to themeans for connecting the sus-.

penders with the trousers. Instead of the conventional ends or tabsusually employed I provide bars 2, adapted to extend along a waistband,and at their ends said bars are provided with clamps or clips 3, adaptedto grasp or grip the trouser-waistband. In the drawings said clamps orclips are shown in inverted-U form or yokes adapted to straddle thewaistband edge, and they are shown provided with springs 4 and levers 5,adapted to grip the waistband. The lever 5 is pivotally supported on theclamp 3 at 5 and has a projection 5 to press the spring 4 against thewaistband to clamp it against the wall 3*. When the lever 5 is swung tothe position shown in Fig. 4, the waistband will be gripped, and whensaid lever is swung reversely the spring 4 will release the waistband,but any other suitable clamp adapted to grip the waistband may be used.As shown, the clips 3 are connected near their lower portions with thebar 2, whereby when said oh s are placed upon and receive the edge of te waistband the bar 2 will be hidden behind the waistband, as well alsoas the loops 11, more or less. As illustrated, one of the clamps orgrips 3 is secured to each bar 2, and the other is adjustable along saidbar to vary the distance between said clamps or grips. To this end Ihave shown one clamp 3, provided with a sleeve 6, mounted to slide onthe bar 2 and having a slot 6, receiving a pin or projection 2 from bar2, so that sleeve 6 and clamp 3 may be adjusted along bar 2, butrotation with respect to bar 2 is prevented, whereby both clamps 3 on abar are maintained in substantially parallel relation. By this means theclamps can be adjusted with respect tothe positions of correspondingbuttons on the waistband. To enable the clamps to engage with the shanksor holding threads of buttons located on the outer surface of thewaistband, I provide the clamps with sockets or recesses 3 into whichthe shanks or holding-threads may pass. Such sockets may be in one ofthe edges of the front wall 3 ofthe clamp or grip. By this means theclamps may be connected with the button-shanks in addition to theclamping action of spring 4 and lever 5, and when so adjusted the frontwall 3 of the clamp which overlies the waistband is more or less hiddenby the button. By having the sockets 3 in the sides of the clamps thevertical strain on the button-shanks is borne by the clamp, and thegripping of the clamp upon the waistband is relieved. The adjustment ofone of the clamps along bar 2 enables ready application of two clampswith respect to corresponding buttons.

The bar 2 is preferably detachably connect ed with the suspender strapsor Webbing. To this end I have shown the suspender-straps provided attheir ends with. connectmg devices comprising a lever or clip 7,pivotally connected with a hanger'8, carried by the suspender, as by aloop 9, and the clip 7 is connected with bar 2 preferably by means of aloop or link 11, hung on said bar and provided with an eye 11 to receivesaid clip. Such arrangement 7 ermits ready detachment of the suspendersflom the bars 2, while the bars may remain attached to the waistband.

As shown in the plan view in Fig. 6, the bar 2 is curved in thedirection corresponding to curvation of a wearers waist, and the clamps3 are on the outer or convex side thereof. Such arrangement permits thebar to lie snugly within a waistband, and particularly by having the bar2 curved so that its central portion lies substantially on a line apassing through the two clamps 3, the latter are kept from twisting orturning over under the strain coming on the clamps during use, wherebythe clamps and bar remain in proper positions. The bar 2 is preferablymade adjustable laterally with respect to the straps of the suspenders,and to permit such loop 11 to remain in adjusted position along bar 2 Iprovide the latter with several pins or projections 2", preferably onthe lower edge, be tween two of which projections the loop 11 lies toprevent it from sliding along the bar. To permit adjustment of loop 11along the bar 2, the bore or bearing of said loop is enlarged at oneside substantially like a keyholeslot, as at 11 Fig. 2, adapted topermit the pins or projections 2 to slide therein. Thus to adjust loop11 along bar 2 they are turned with respect to each other until pins orprojections 2 aline with slot 11 and then either the bar and loop isslid along the other and the pins turned down, as in Fig. 1, to preventsliding of the bar along the loop. By this means the wearer can attachthe bar 2 in a suitable position to his trouser-waistbands, and byadjusting loop 1 1 along the bar can cause the Suspender-strap end to beadjusted around his waist more or less to effect the holding of thetrousers more or less to ward the front or side, as he may desire.

My invention is not limited to the details shown and described, as theymay be varied without departing from the spirit thereof.

Having now described my invention, what I claim is I 1. In suspendersthe combination of the straps, with bars, means for connecting the barswith the straps, clamps or grips carried by the bars for connection withtrousers, said clamps or grips being provided with sockets in theiredges adapted to receive the shanks or holding-threads of buttons ontrousers, substantially as described.

side edges of their outer walls to receive the shanks or holding-threadsof buttons, substantially as described.

3. In suspenders the combination of the straps, with bars, loops forconnecting the bars with the straps, means interposed between the 'barsand loops for holding the loops in ad justed positions along the bars,and clamps or grips carried by said bars and adapted to grip trousers,one of said clamps or grips being adjustably connected with said bar topermit adjustment of the same along the bar, substantially as described.

4. In suspenders the combination of the straps, with bars, means forconnecting the bars with the straps, clamps or clips carried by saidbars to engage trousers, one of said clamps or clips being mounted toslide adjustably upon the corresponding bar by means of a pin-and-slotconnection between the bar and said clamp or clip,substantially asdescribed.

5. In suspenders the combination of the straps, with.bars, means forconnecting the bars with trousers, means for connecting the bars withthe straps, and means to permit adjustment of the bars laterally withrespect to the straps and for maintaining the bars in such adjustedpositions, substantially as described.

6. In suspenders the combination of the straps with bars provided withprojections, loops mounted movably upon the bars and adapted to restbetween a pair of projections and provided with means to permit the loopto be slid along the bar past the projections and to be retained inadjusted position on the bar by the projections, and means forconnecting said loops with said straps, substantially as described.

7. In suspenders the combination of the straps, with bars provided withmeans for at tachment to trousers and having a plurality of projections,a loop mounted to slide upon each bar, said loop having a slot to permitthe passage of the loop along the bar past the projections when the loopis turned in one osition, said projections being arranged to limit themovement of the loop along the bar when the loop is turned in anotherposition, and means for connecting said loops with said straps,substantially as described.

8. In suspenders the combination of the straps, with bars, means forconnecting the straps with the bars, clamps or grips carried by the barscomprising yoke-like members provided with a spring and with aclampingever, whereby the clamps may be attached to trousers, saidmembers being connected the eyes of said loopsfor detaohably connect-With the bars at their lower portions so that ing the straps With thebars, said bars having the bars will be connected when the membersrojeotions to limit the movement of the p are on a Waistband,substantially as deoops along the bars, substantially as de- 5 scribed.scribed.

9. In suspenders the combination of the straps, With bars provided withmeans for attaohment to trousers, loops carried by said Witnesses: barsand provided with eyes, and-clips pivot- T. F. BOURNE, 1o ally carriedby the straps adapted to enter JNo. RoBT. TAYLOR.

HENRY J. GAISMAN.

